I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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